CLAREMONT, CA. – The Pomona-Pitzer Baseball team opened up its season with a sweep against non-conference opponent Whitworth with a 15-5 and a 10-7 win on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Field. 

Season Impact: With the sweep, the Sagehens start the year 3-0 overall.

The Sagehens were led in game one by first-year Donovan Crook who went 3-6 with four RBI and two runs scored. Jackson Fleming, JC Ng, and Isaac Kim had two-hit games while David Bedrosian, Caleb Millikan, and William Kinney had one each.

Harry Deliyannis was the game-one starter of the doubleheader and went 4.2 innings with five runs and five strikeouts. Eric Prough came in relief of Deliyannis for 0.1 innings while Enoch Kim picked up the win with one inning pitched.  Eddie Rosemont and Ethan Collins finished the game for Pomona-Pitzer with three hits surrendered between the pair and no runs given up.

Whitworth started strong, scoring four runs in the second inning, with a two-RBI double from Tincher and a two-RBI single from Paul. However, Pomona-Pitzer quickly responded in the third inning with a three-RBI home run from Kim and a two-RBI double from Crook to tie the score at 4-4. From the fourth inning onwards, Pomona-Pitzer dominated the game, scoring 11 runs to Whitworth's 1 run.  

Bedrosian grounded out for the RBI in the bottom of the fifth while Kinney came around the score on a wild pitch to put the Sagehens up 8-5. In the sixth inning, Ng and Bedrosian singled home runs while Jakobs earned an RBI with a walk to make it 11-5 Sagehens. 

Crook came back. In the bottom of the seventh for his first collegiate homer with a two-run shot to make it 13-5 and then two more in the bottom of the eighth from a Fleming RBI single and an error as the Sagehens cruised to a win in game one of the doubleheader. 

In game two, the Sagehens were led by Bedrosian who went 3-4 at the dish that included his first home run of the season. Kim also had a multi-hit performance going 2-4 with two runs scored while Ng, Jakobs, Fleming, Millikan, Crook, and Kinney joined the stat sheet with one hit as well in the win.

First-year Hannoh Seo got the ball for game two and went four innings with four hits, three runs and five strikeouts. Jake Albro came in relief and picked up the win with two innings, two runs surrendered and three strikeouts while Landon Carter finished the game with an inning pitched. 

Pomona-Pitzer fell behind early as Seo got behind in his first collegiate start of his career. Whitworth scored one in the first with an RBI single and then two more in the second to take an early 3-0 lead, forcing the Sagehens to play from behind in game two of the doubleheader.  

The Sagehens got back into the game with a big three-run bottom of the fourth after Bedrosian started off the inning with a solo shot to center field for the first run of the inning. Millikan followed with an RBI double, and Fleming capped the inning off with an RBI single to tie the game at 3-3.  The inning ended with a close call at home after Millikan was called out on an attempted sacrifice fly that potentially would of given the Sagehens the lead but the two teams went into the fifth tied at 3-3.  

Whitworth reclaimed the lead in their next at-bats after a sacrifice fly, but the Sagehens came roaring back with a three-run bomb by Ng to take over the lead at 6-4. The Sagehens added four more in the inning after RBI singles by Fleming and Crook and then a Kinney RBI double made it 10-4 through five innings of play. 

The Pirates started to come back late in the game with an RBI single in the sixth and then a 2 RBI double in the seventh to cut the lead down to 10-7, but the Sagehens were able to hang on to complete the sweep on opening weekend at Alumni Field.

Up Next: The Sagehens will next host Willamette for a three-game series starting on Saturday, February 11^th at 11:00 a.m.